Evaluating the function 'function' timed out

Question

Environment: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.2

Error:

Evaluating the function 'function' ("Windows.Controls...ToString" in my case) timed out and needed to be aborted in an unsafe way.

Answers say this commonly occurs when

Options > Debugging > General > enable property evaluation > is enabled.

I disabled this. Problem still happens. Microsoft presents a few options to solve this including

• Prevent the debugger from calling the getter property or ToString method (In my case this is 3rd party code)
• Have the target code ask the debugger to abort the evaluation (I don't know what this means. It strikes me as "just ignore it")

Answer 1

I found this was related to ReSharper. Unchecking Debugger Integration from the ReSharper options solved the issue for me:

VS2017 > ReSharper > Options > Products & Features > Uncheck Debugger Integration

Answer 2

This popped up for me in Visual Studio 2017. Version 15.5.2. I stopped the error with an option in the top menu:

Debug > Options > "Use Managed Compatibility Mode"

This is not ideal. From the docs "Use Managed Compatability Mode":

Replaces the default debugging engine with a legacy version to enable these scenarios:

You are using a .NET Framework language other than C#, VB, or F# that provides its own Expression Evaluator (this includes C++/CLI).

You want to enable Edit and Continue for C++ projects while mixed mode debugging.

Note that choosing Managed Compatibility mode disables some features that are implemented only in the default debugging engine.

I hope to see a better fix soon. As of 2/20/2018 there is a similar/same open issue in the Microsoft Developer Community.

UPDATE

This bug is listed as closed/fixed as of 5/22/2020.